Amazon's AI outage, the engineer retention crisis, autonomous agents and the future of senior engineers

The Amazon AI coding outage reignited a debate the industry can't ignore: is this an AI failure or a process failure, and does that distinction even matter anymore? Paige, Jack, Paul, and Noel dig into vibe coding culture, the engineer retention crisis, and the rise of harness engineering as a discipline in this month's panel. They also tackle autonomous agents running while you sleep, zero-touch engineering, what a senior engineer even means now, and whether open source can survive the agentic era. Resources Beyond the Hype: Why Vibe Coding Leaders Are Facing a Retention Crisis: Atlassian layoffs as part of AI push: I'm Building Agents That Run While I Sleep: We want to hear from you! How did you find us? Did you see us on Twitter? In a newsletter? Or maybe we were recommended by a friend? Fill out our listener survey ! Let us know by sending an email to our producer, Elizabeth, at elizabeth.becz@logrocket.com , or tweet at us at PodRocketPod . Check out our newsletter !

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This episode was published on Mar 26, 2026.

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